Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 2 for 3ds Max
New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
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Google open-sources Seurat
Updated: Free tech converts offline renders to 3D geometry for use in mobile VR. Has exporters for Maya, Unity, UE4 - and now 3ds Max.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018
Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.
Monday, June 18th, 2018
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019.1
Update improves Alembic support and performance of OSL shaders; adds new Projects toolbar plus helper tools for Fluids simulations.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Sneak peek: rendering Corona materials in V-Ray for 3ds Max
Upcoming V-Ray Next hotfix to let users render Corona materials directly and convert common Corona textures.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
AAA Studio makes FurryBall RT renderer available 'free'
GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D now discontinued, but still available for a "symbolic price" of €29/year.
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free eight-hour plasma VFX tutorial
VFX supervisor's new free training course comes with full project files in MAX, FBX and Alembic formats.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
TP Debugger helps you debug 3ds Max/thinkingParticles sims
Neat scripted operator displays key particle properties on screen to troubleshoot simulations visually.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Now shipping: Next big update to the renderer officially launches. See the key features and price changes here.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Spline Dynamics releases Spline Combiner for 3ds Max
Handy script lets users perform complex Boolean operations on splines quickly and intuitively.
Friday, May 18th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 1.9
Open-source renderer adds image denoising, random walk SSS, neat camera shutter curve and light path recording systems.
Monday, May 14th, 2018
Boomer Labs and JokerMartini release Vexus 3.0
3ds Max scene assembly tool adds support for multiple cameras, XRefs, new Python interpreter.
Saturday, May 5th, 2018